Sunday, 23 November 2014

OUR WEEKLY PROCRASTINATION

This section's Estimated Time of Procrastination is: 5'

If you're visiting on the week-end, be prepared to queue for around 15min.

Above: tape installation by Numen/For Use, made up only of transparent Scotch tape.

Mark Manden. Room with Unfired Clay Figure, 2014.

Dran, the French illustrator has taken over the big staircase connecting the two floors of the exhibition.

Andro Wekua. Untitled.

Berdaguer & Péjus, C.28, 2014.This space must be amazing if you get to visit it with just few other people at the same time.

John Giorno's Poem Paintings.

Outside the Palais is also lovely.

Curated by Jean de Loisy, Daria de Beauvais, Katell Jaffrès, the new exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris is a great opportunity to immerse in several different "insides" created by more than 20 artists using all sorts of techniques. From quiet and calming, to darker, disgusting, sticky, disturbing, alarming, claustrophobic, naughty, surprising, if something characterizes Inside is its capacity of being very moving and emotional. It is definitely a "risky voyage" as described by its curators.

In the Palais the Tokyo website we can read: "Inside offers visitors a passage to the interior of the self,
for which the exhibition space serves as a metaphor. This immense
odyssey, both physical and psychological, invites us to walk through two
floors of the Palais de Tokyo that have been transformed by artists in
such a way that, from one installation to the next, we remain constantly
immersed in the works, which lead us within ourselves – from our skin
to our most intimate thoughts."

The exhibition will remain inside the Palais of Tokyo (excellent view of the Tour Eiffel, btw) until the 11th of January. It will probably hold a little longer in your mind though! If your planning a Christmas trip to Paris you should definitely check it out!